ELMONT, N.Y. – After upsetting Jack Shore to hand him his first loss, Ricky Simon said having that distinction really doesn’t mean that much to him.
Simon (20-3 MMA, 8-2 UFC) forced Shore (16-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) to tap to a second-round arm-triangle choke in a key bantamweight bout at UFC on ABC 3 in Elmont, N.Y., on Saturday. Shore, a former Cage Warriors champion who had started his UFC tenure at 5-0, was close to a 2-1 betting favorite in the fight. But Simon arguably was his toughest opponent yet.
What’s more important to him than being the first one to beat Shore was making sure his own winning streak continued, Simon said. He ran it to five straight against highly regarded names like Raphael Assuncao, Brian Kelleher, Ray Borg, and now Shore.
